St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-20
at the Second Edyertists' Camp Meet
ing the Conference Work Was
Carried 0l---The Sermons.
Some Of The Striking Workmen Meet
and Try to Hold Up One
An0ther's Hands.
In Honor Of the Queens Jubilee--Rus-
sian Citizens Grgani2e---Sum-
mary of Local News.
SAM JONES is THERE.
The Evangelist Begins Work at
Red Rock in His Usual Style.

George Ill. Hazard yesterday, there
has never been such an immense
number of people on these grounds as
have been here to-day. l estimate the
crowd at from eight TO ten thousand
Standing room was at a premium on
every one of the large special trains
that ran to the grounds. Besides those
carried by the Burlington and Mil
waukee the steamers Ruby and the City
of ST. Paul carried large number OF
passengers. The number of people COM
ing in carriages and wagons was
also very large. The crowd, large as it
was. preserved good order throughout.
Sam Jones, looking in good health, was
there. and the. morning sermon was
preached by him from the text, For
the grace of God that bringeth saliva
ton hath appeared unto all men," 1T is
never my purpose" said the speaker
after a somewhat lengthy Introduction,
''to strike at or hit at any denomination,
and if you get hit to-day it is because |
am squeezing the richest juices out of
my text, and if that hits you, God
help you. | believe in the full,
free, general salvation of race,
i don't believe there is one man in hell
to-day but that he had one good chance
to get to heaven. This grace of God
that bringeth salvation hath appeared
to alLmen. God redeemed us on COM
mon platform, and when you open the
gate wide enough to let in one it opens
wide enough to let i'll every one.
lifts better to be righteous and go
to heaven rather than be mean and
guilN and go to hell, then let's come to
an Understanding to-day. There is very
little hope for man when he gets to
know too much. The biggest fool
in the universe is the man
who Z. thinks he knows it all.
1 like that Kind of religion that begins
in the top of a mans head. l believe
God puts his auger into the top of
mans head and bores right straight
doWBipto his heart and then
INTO HIS PoCKETBOOK.
You often hear man say he has re-
ligion in his heart and he don't care to
have it in his head. Well, if | have any
religion at all | want it in my head so
that | can think for God. l want re-
ligiOnall over me so that can walk and
talk for God. People often get their
heads full of opinions. Wells preacher
is not'worth killing when he gets his
head fiiledup with opinions. No man
question, The only way to tell how
straight. thing is is to put the
straight edge OH it, and not stand
guessing like an old fool. You might
just as well preach to billy goat as to
one of these men with opinions. Their
heads are just about as hard. Some peo-
pie find fault with me for using animals
for illustrations, but | can't get along
without nick names. Everybody in this
audience knew who l meant when l
spoke of billy goat. Every man knows
God taught my heart was that l was
Sinnera and | ought not to be. My re-
ligiOn is wrapped up into two sentences.
First. II you want to be good God will
help you day and night. Second, if YOU
want to be bad the devil will help you
with ali his might. If you find me man
that wants to d6'the clean thing through
and through, I'll show you man that
God lISill bless every minute. |
God Ponverted Sam Small He said:
you must quit If he hadn't, he would
have been drunk a thousand times when
l wanted him to preach. Religion
mean5sI'll quit the wrong and not
only that, but I'll do the right. Some
of you put your head in the church and
your heels are off somewhere in some
ball-rp9n. A man is doing pretty well
When4Te is one-tenth Christian. You
ought to be the best Christians in the
world in Minnesota. because it's so cold
the time, and you have nothing else to
do but sit by the fire and pray. l don't
believe in a Christianity that gives a
man wholesale chance to get drunk.
play cards and tell lies. can see how
they can do it once, but 1
don't understand how it can be
done twice. Unless you are hundred
cents5in-the-dollar Christian, l don't
want to undertake to go your security.
II iRI t1,N cob. Il e
Christian that lets him rot to death in
a dungeon without murmur. 1t was
hard for me to give up little one, but
am "a hundred times better father to
those that are left on earth because of
that one in heaven. Brother, put your
faith in God and quit worrying. If re-
ligion don't make better father,
brother, citizen and neighbor, you are
not worth cent. You may go along
shouting Happy on the way" and your
creditors are miserable on the way. A
man that is not afraid of God; you had
better. be afraid of Him. Brethren, let's
be honest or let's go to the poor house.
Wash your hands Of unworthy
; ANOTHER FROM JONES.
Mr. Jones preached again at $50 in
the afternoon, prefaeing his sermon by
saying: I've been called vulgar by
the newspapers, and yet there is no man
in the world who would die quicker than
l to defend the honor of your girls. and
to-day there is not man who writes
those articles who would not go into any
home and rob d poor and innocent girl
of her virtue If the law would allow
them to do it, / believe we will never
accomplish the highest results until we
have Christian unity. have seen men
clever in everything except religion.
There it is that they are narrow and
contracted, bigoted and everything
csc that is mean and contemplate.
a fool Is the most contemplate thing
in the world, and fool Baptist, a fool
Presbyterian, or fool Episcopalian is
the finest specimen of the fool that eX-
lists. 1t amt which church you get
into, but it is what sort of Teller is in
the church when you get there. | was
born Methodist, and it is no more
sin for me to be Methodist than to be
a Jones-I was born both. If it
is a. sin to be Methodist
it is original sin and should
be charged up to Adam. l
have never been ashamed of my church.
Sometimes | have been sorter ashamed
of my crowd, but never Of Methodism.
Take good, old, sober-sided minister
poor old fellow love him, but some
times pity him from the bottom of my
heart. The church expects the minis
try to bring souls to Christ. and what
must be the thoughts of the average
minister who neglectS to reach the hun
CRY souls around him. We are here to
fight the devil and if we don't fight
he'll lay siege to us. Go to the average
church in st. Paul or Minneapolis
and see the feuds that are being fought
out in each one of them.
The rustic of silk dress drives the
poor woman i'll cheap cotton dress
from the churches. When you see
woman dressed in silk it doesn't mean
THAT she is going to wash dishes, that